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"cveId": "CVE-2025-40133",
"assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"state": "PUBLISHED",
"assignerShortName": "Linux",
"dateReserved": "2025-04-16T07:20:57.170Z",
"datePublished": "2025-11-12T10:23:22.498Z",
"dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:07:59.353Z"
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmptcp: Use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in mptcp_active_enable().\n\nmptcp_active_enable() is called from subflow_finish_connect(),\nwhich is icsk->icsk_af_ops->sk_rx_dst_set() and it's not always\nunder RCU.\n\nUsing sk_dst_get(sk)->dev could trigger UAF.\n\nLet's use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu()."
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"value": "AV:N - The stale `dst->dev` dereference executes while processing a remote peer's SYN-ACK — `tcp_finish_connect()` → `icsk_af_ops->sk_rx_dst_set()` → `subflow_finish_connect()` → `mptcp_active_enable()` — so remote network data drives entry into the vulnerable code, and the peer also controls the MP_CAPABLE/blackhole state that unlocks the guarded block. Any MPTCP-enabled host making outbound connections (mobile/carrier stacks, mptcpize'd services, MPTCP proxies) is exposed to a malicious or on-path server.\nAC:H - The attacker controls one side of the race (when the SYN-ACK arrives and thus when `dst->dev` is read), but the other side requires the route's `net_device` to be concurrently unregistered so `dst_dev_put()`/`netdev_ref_replace()` drops the last reference and `free_netdev()` runs — a local netdev-teardown event a remote peer can neither induce nor time, as is landing the SYN-ACK in the socket backlog (non-RCU process context) rather than softirq.\nPR:N - The vulnerable code runs during the TCP/MPTCP handshake itself, before any application-level authentication or credential exchange, so the remote peer needs no privileges or account of any kind on the target.\nUI:N - Outbound MPTCP connections are made automatically by daemons, mobile connectivity stacks, and proxies without any human action, and an on-path attacker can simply inject the MP_CAPABLE SYN-ACK for a connection the host initiates on its own.\nS:U - The use-after-free is on a kernel `struct net_device` and its effects stay within the kernel's own security authority; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - This is a use-after-free read of a freed, heap-sprayable `net_device`, and a reclaimed slab can be groomed with attacker-influenced data, giving a read primitive over reclaimed kernel memory; the value read (`dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK`) further acts as an oracle since it determines whether `active_disable_times` is cleared, which is observable through subsequent MPTCP fallback behaviour and the MPTCP MIB counters.\nI:H - A use-after-free on a `net_device` is a heap-corruption primitive whose reclaimed contents are attacker-influenceable via spraying, and here freed memory directly steers a kernel state write (`atomic_set(&pernet->active_disable_times, 0)`), letting uncontrolled reclaimed data modify per-namespace MPTCP protocol state and, once the slab is groomed, be escalated toward arbitrary write and control-flow hijack.\nA:H - Dereferencing a freed `net_device` — allocated with `kvzalloc` and potentially unmapped on free — reliably produces a kernel oops or panic even when not weaponized, and the trigger can be retried indefinitely for a persistent denial of service."
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